Napoleonic Literature
Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne (1812-1813)

By Jean Baptiste François Bourgogne
Translated from the French by P:aul Cottin and Maurice Henault
Published:  1899, London, William Heinemann.

Table of Contents

PREFACE
CHAPTER I - FROM ALMEIDA TO MOSCOW
CHAPTER II - THE FIRE AT MOSCOW
CHAPTER III - THE RETREAT — REVIEW OF MY KNAPSACK — THE EMPEROR IN DANGER — FROM MOJAISK TO SLAWKOWO. 
CHAPTER IV - DOROGOBOUI — VERMIN — CANTINIÈRE — HUNGER.
CHAPTER V - A DISASTER — A FAMILY DRAMA — MARSHAL MORTIER — TWENTY-SEVEN DEGREES OF FROST — WE REACH SMOLENSK — A DEN OF THIEVES.
CHAPTER VI - A DISTURBED NIGHT — I FIND MY FRIENDS AGAIN — WE LEAVE SMOLENSK — A NECESSARY CORRECTION — THE BATTLE OF KRASNOË — MELLÉ THE DRAGOON.
CHAPTER VII - THE RETREAT GOES ON — I TAKE A WIFE — DISCOURAGEMENT — I LOSE SIGHT OF MY COMRADES — DRAMATIC SCENE — MEETING WITH PICART.
CHAPTER VIII - I TRAVEL WITH PICART — THE COSSACKS — PICART IS WOUNDED — A CONVOY OF FRENCH PRISONERS — A HALT IN A FOREST — POLISH HOSPITALITY — AN ATTACK OF INSANITY — WE REJOIN THE ARMY — THE EMPEROR AND THE SACRED BATTALION — THE CROSSING OF THE BÉRÉZINA.
CHAPTER IX - FROM THE BÉRÉZINA TO WILNA — THE JEWS.
CHAPTER X - FROM WILNA TO KOWNO — THE REGIMENTAL DOG — MARSHAL NEY — THE TREASURY OF THE ARMY — I AM POISONED — THE THIEVES’ DRIPPING — THE OLD GRENADIER, FALOPPA — GENERAL ROGUET — FROM KOWNO TO ELBING — TWO CANTINIÉRES — THE ADVENTURES OF A SERGEANT — I FIND PICART AGAIN — THE SLEDGE OF THE JEWS — A SHREW — EYLAU — ARRIVAL AT ELBING.
CHAPTER XI - OUR STAY AT ELBING — MADAME GENTIL — AN UNCLE’S HEIR — JANUARY IST, 1813 — PICART AND THE PRUSSIANS — FATHER ELLIOT — MY WITNESSES.

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